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Hi, this is Key from BBC Learning English.
And today, I'm going to tell you the differences between while and during.
We can use while and during to say that a shorter event happened within a longer event.
They mean the same, but the grammar is different.
After a while, we have a clause.
A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb.
So we can say while I was having lunch, my phone rang.
Remember that the verb in the while clause is usually in an ING form.
We can also use while with just an ING form.
So we can say while having lunch, my phone rang.
So we remove the subject and the beaver.
However, during is different because you can only be used with a noun phrase.
So we can say during lunch, my phone rang.
We cannot use a clause or just the ING form.
So say meaning, but different grammar.